GQ: People love the album and a lot has been written about it. Has anyone misconstrued parts of it?
Kendrick Lamar: A few people think that these stories are just different events throughout my whole life. That story is just one day, one full day. Some things that always happened throughout the days and throughout the weeks, but that was just one particular day that really turned my whole life around and I understood what I should be doing is something positive, which is music right now. They don't know me yet. They might think they know me, but they don't.

"..First you gotta grind, then you let em know, when they see ya shine, everybody be like whoa.."

I mean seriously, Tree has to be the most mature rapper I've ever heard in my life, dude raps about people's real lives, and not in in a contrived or purely artistic way, just authentic. I really hope he gets big yo.